The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-02

nothing else; met Crowder in the Gala
boose; asked him what he was in for; he
said fine for carrying pistol; owed
500; asked me what was in for, and he
wanted to know why did not get law
yer; told him had asked Lucy every
day to do so, but he had not done so; he
proposed, if would pay his fine, to go
to my house and tell my folks and get
me lawyer; l told him had no money but
1 would give him horse; he came to me
when he was out and gave him an order
for the pony; he then wanted some money
and l gave him So out of the 800; l
wanted him to tell my folks so they could
send to my father and he could come and
fee me lawyer; told him to tell my wife
that they connected me with the
robbery by piece OF pa
per, the Georgetown Sun; did
not tell him to tell her to fix up a
story about the paper, but to tell her if she
remembered anything about it to keep it
until the day of trial; 1 don't know j. c.
Martin.
Cross examined: heard Mr.. Lucy's tes-
timony in court; l have no recollection OF
having made two statements to Lucy; he
saw me first at Round Rock; told him
knew nothing about how the paper got to
to McNeill; told him my sister had told
me my brother ate supper at her house
two weeks before / was arrested; told
him 1 did not see my brother; i do not
know where he is now; l did not say to
Buckley in Jail that this money was given
me by my brothers. land was part of what was
gotten at the robbery of the train; did not
tell him my brother was at my
house just before the robbery and
had wrapped up provisions into this
paper; 1 wrote to my wife the
day after 1 sent Crowder; I did not know
whether my letter would go or even get
into the mail; 1 did not employ him to
go to my wife and concoct some scheme
about the paper; thought the paper was
good circumstantial proof against me,
and l was anxious to know if any one had
carried paper from my house; have
not seen my brother in four or five
months; he came to my house to see me;
Bill Carpenter was not in the habit of
coming to my house; came there once,
when was there; wanted to borrow some
money of me; Olive arrested me as l was
coming out of the field; he told me was
arrested and then took me to Florence
and to Georgetown; he told me when he
arrested me when the train was
robbed; I told him 1 had been
at home every day that week;
he told me at the time when he arrested
me; he said, 4 want you for that robbery
done on Wednesday night l was at home
on Wednesday, the 18th; was in the field,
planting cotton, on the 10Th; l saw men,
named Turner and Kennedy, who we're at
work in a field across the lane; saw several
persons on the Burnet and Lampasas
I roads; did not talk to any of them; |
planted cotton on the Goth; saw Turner
and Kennedy again in their field; saw Mr.
I Thompson going in and out to Florence
J didn't talk to them; two Mr.. Shaws passed
on the road; Mr.. Kirk came into the field
and walked around with me; think this
was the 18th; 1 was arrested about
O'Clock was blowing out sugar cane in
the morning; 1 talked with a man named
, Woodward in the forenoon; don't recollect
any one being at Fay house; if any one had
, been there would have remembered it;
, was planting cotton on the 18th; l saw
Jesse Adams, l believe, on Tuesday; he
came to buy my place; 1 planted cotton
{ on the 10Th; don't remember if 1 saw any.
one, saw uWO VI buT0o OI lodu5
staid at home on Sunday; l met the men
have mentioned on the 18th; it is fixeo
, in my mind, because Olive said l was
= arrested for the robbery on that day;
studied to fix the day in my mind;
1; don't know how far it is from my house
to McNeill; don't know where 1t is; 1t Ii
[ called twenty nine miles from my house tt
3 Round Rock; was raised at Florence;
5 know how to ride, but have not ridden 1
= very great deal the ladies who got paper
I at our house got them from some membe
v of the family: some of these ladies ar
: at my house every week, sometime
a one and sometimes two at time
5 they seldom come oftener than once
; week; man named Sam Allen came Il
: my house on Monday morning, also maj
I named Dockery; both soon in the morn
e ing; my sisters were both there four O
g five days before my arrest don't knov
: that they took any papers tina
/; time; Mrs. Smart, Mrs. Moore an
!; Mrs. Hunt are the only ones
j; know of who got papers: l know O
l their doing so once or twice, but do no
- know which ones they took; l told Div
= and Lucy 1 took a paper with that ad
/; dress on it; do not know that any of m
r sisters wrapped grub in this paper TO
: any one.
= Re. direct examinations: Mrs. Smar
d Mrs. Moore and Mrs Hunt are my sisters
j; Mrs. Presley and Mrs. Hoover also visi
r my house; no others visit us regularly o
! often; Mrs. Pressy and Mrs. Hoover ar
e neighbors; heard Mrs. Hunt ask for pa
= per to read; Mrs. Moore wanted one for
Q pattern; I don't know about Mrs. Pressle
g, or Mrs. Hoover getting my papers; m
: wife got some from Mrs. Presley; any o
t them were welcome to the papers; Brothe
@ John is unmarried; Austin is married; hi
! wife is Mr.. Jackson's niece; John Is evad
= ing arrest; he was last at my house fou
:. or five months ago; I saw him then;
It haven't seen him since; heard of his bein
e at my sisters, Mrs. Hunts, about tw
n weeks before my arrest; she told me of ii
n l told John 1 did not like for him to com
d to my house; if the officers knew of
1 they would get me into trouble; told tn
man in the calaboose that l thought tn
n piece of paper was what they connecte
e me with the robbery by; Olive told me
j.; found the paper where the express pacl
d ages were broken open; tol
@ Crowder to tell my wife tha
: if she knew how the pape
y got from my place to remember il to tn
{; day of the trial; if she got the letter
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